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Sudhir Suri

Partner, Senior Principal OAQ Architect
LEED AP

ACADEMIC TRAINING
Bachelor’s degree in Architecture, Professional Diploma, University of Waterloo, Montreal, 1997-1999
Bachelor of Environmental Studies Environmental Studies, University of Waterloo, Montreal, 1993-1996
HBA -Specialization in Philosophy, Mathematics, Physics, University of Toronto, 1983-1992
AWARDS
Finalist OAQ Award of Excellence Notre Dame de Grace Cultural Centre, 2017
Curry Stone Design Price, 2017
Award of Excellence, Canadian Architect, House in four fields 2012
Holcim International Bronze Medal Greening the Infrastructure Benny Farm, 2006
Holcim Gold Medal North America, Greening the Benny Farm Infrastructure, 2005
OAA Award of Excellence Team Perimeter Institut, Saucier and Perrotte 2002

 

 

Sudhir has a lot of years of diversified experience and an outstanding capacity for analysis and synthesis. He has a great expertise on integrated and sustainable design, at multiple scales and typologies. Sudhir is convinced that in everyday work we often set the bar too low, barely touching what is possible by the human mind: the creation of ideas, of meaningful places, understood and felt intuitively, immediately by everyone, together. Sudhir is an innovator in the collaborative design process, an approach where listening is more important than talking. His unique perspective is based on intimate work with social context and technical versatility. Transforming the complexity of our cities into beauty and resilience is paramount to the success of our species. Reinventing our vision of the city is necessary. The world is facing a human migration to cities on a scale we have never seen before, affecting people whose realities we can barely comprehend, impacting the planet’s environments in ways we are only beginning to grasp. The magnitude of these forces has fundamentally changed the task at hand. It is now everyone’s duty to create transferable models of regenerative and miraculous cities. This world of better cities can and should be created intentionally, not as the residue of another work. Sudhir has also taught architecture and urban planning at several universities, including Waterloo, McGill, UQAM and the University of Montreal. He will do so again.